AGRICULTURE
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Romania To Become Net Exporter Of Agri-Food Products This Year
Romania will become a net exporter of agri-food products by yearend for the first time in 22 years, now that the deficit of its trade in such products, which stood at EUR300 million in 2011,...
Agriculture Ministry Launches National Rural Development Network
Romania’s Agriculture Ministry on Thursday launched the National Rural Development Network (RNDR) through which farmers will receive counsel on how to develop local businesses using European...
7,000 Individual Farmers Own 8% Of Romania’s Arable Land
Almost 7,000 individual farmers together exploit 700,000 hectares of land, i.e. 8% of the arable land in Romania, according to data of the Agriculture Ministry. The business done by these pe...
Agriculture Ministry Eyes Setting Up Land Bank
Romania’s Agriculture Ministry is working on a project to set up a land bank which will have pre-emption right to purchase farmlands to further merge, lease or sell them, Agriculture Ministe...
Agriculture Ministry To Absorb EUR1B In EU Funds In 1Q
Romania’s Agriculture Ministry targets absorbing EUR1 billion in EU funds in the first quarter of the year and plans to attract EUR2.5 billion this year, minister Stelian Fuia told a seminar...
Western Insurers And Bankers Join Foreign Farmers In Race For Romania’s Farmland
Lebanese-held Maria Trading and Agro Chirnogi, Portuguese-held Prio Foods, Dutch company DN Agrar, Ingleby, the agricultural investment vehicle of Danish billionaire family Raunsing, German...
Foreigners May Buy Romanian Farmland Starting 2014
Foreign investors will be able to buy farmland without restrictions as of 2014, given that extending the restrictions would entail a modification of Romania’s EU accession treaty.
Agriculture Minister Fires Headship Of Authority Managing EU-Funded Fisheries Program
Romania’s Agriculture Minister Stelian Fuia on Wednesday dismissed the headship of the management authority for the operational program for fisheries, as it absorbed no money from the EUR320...
Disastrous Start For EU Absorption: Not A Single Euro Drawn In January
Not one euro refunded by the EU from the structural and cohesion funds. This is what the first month of the year looked like, a year in which the Romanian authorities plan to attract EUR6 bi...